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My father was Donald O. Woolf Jr. He was in the 99th. Five or six years ago, after talking to Vern Swanson, he asked if I would be interested in receiving my father's address book and the letters that he sent to him after he was wounded and sent back to the U.S. Within a week I got the letters and the phone book. Dad wrote to Vern several times.

It seems Vern carried a BAR and gave it to my dad. My father wrote him saying that his BAR was still a virgin. He saw a German and pulled the trigger only to find the gun was out of ammo.

The most fantastic thing was in looking though my dad's phone book, I found an entry for Eugene Settles, who had lived in Kentucky and his family had owned Settle's Harley Davidson.

I called Kentucky information and found there was a listing for him so I called the number, asked if he was the person in my dad's book, and he verified it. I still remembered my father saying, "He was one damn fine soldier." We talked for just a short time.

It was just so fantastic that it took a while for this to sink in — calling a phone number that was in a book that was 60 years old and being able to talk to that person!